On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:15 PM, STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Why should we do that? ASCII format is just fine. Remember that
> PyUnicode_FromFormatV() is part of the C API. I don't think that anyone would
> use non-ASCII format in C.
Why not. Gettext manual is full of examples with i18nalized format strings.
> If someone does that, (s)he should open a new issue
> for that :-)
Why new issue? The title of this issue fits perfectly and IMO it is
hard to argue that to "handle non-ascii text correctly" means to raise
an error when non-ascii text is encountered.